L'Ouverture

[ French loo-ver-tyr ]

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noun

Joux, imprisonment and death of Toussaint Louverture in castle of, ii.

Toussaint Louverture was the descendant, as he claimed, of an African chieftain.

Toussaint Louverture, after he was caught, died without speaking a word.

La raison ne sera-t-elle pas que dans ce cas, avec louverture de labcs, le ver sort?

Toussaint sees the "opening" for his race and for himself, and from this day he is Toussaint Louverture—the first of the blacks.

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